2015-08-23

Heraldry

Designing the banners for the different factions is lots of fun. There are the concepts which inspire each flag. With the starting two factions, the American Confederacy and Star Kingdoms, the flags were partially just put together as what worked. Two of the planned future factions took a little more thought to put together. The pirates flag was actually something put together years ago for the most part; and the Unaligned flag was put together, well, within the last few hours.

So we can go down the list.

Unaligned

The inspiration is pretty much just the NAM, Non-Aligned Movement heraldry. A dove carrying a branch. Pretty simple. Though the Dove is Argent instead, the branch is Or. And I threw in a Or wreath around it, all on the UN light azure field.

Pirates

I am not actually going to say what their faction name is... yet. But the banner is various circle patterns around the central three characters for their acronym. This was something I worked on considering years ago with a friend when thinking about pirate factions.

I wanted to get the Pirates and Unaligned having something so I could throw that into the Army List book as chapter headers... that way there is some kind of artwork.

Star Kingdoms

This one is pretty funny. Start with a dark azure field. Put or aquilas on the upper corners, just for decoration mostly. In the center is a slight modification of a Swiss shield, argent with an or border. On the shield is what I adopted as their symbol that is a five pointed star, with each point being a different color to represent the five kingdoms. This faction, in general, has actually been the funnest faction to put together.
Today I modified the aquila decorations, upgraded them you could say.

American Confederacy

This was jumbled together with whatever I could think of. The symbol alone is a gold icon based off of an idea I formed after seeing a shadow on my ceiling. I then put this on a modified Swiss shield, still different design then the Star Kingdoms. Then for the field I used a Argent saltire dividing two dark azure sections and two sanguine sections; what a friend of mine collectively refers to as Democratic Blue and Republican Red. This flag is admittedly my favorite flag just because of the two field colors with the saltire.


Today, aside from making up one of these flags, I was mostly putting them together at a higher resolution. Or the same resolution that the cards are built on. Higher quality images, pixel by pixel was fine years ago but it really no longer satisfies me properly.

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